I’m sure I heard something about these exercises last year, but it seems they don’t want to remind folks;

We received a lot of phones calls, Tweets and Facebook posts from worried neighbors, wondering what was going on.

SkyEye 13 HD was over the south side where at first look, it appeared there was a massive SWAT scene happening.

With military helicopters flying above her southeast Houston neighborhood, Frances Jerrals didn’t know what to think.

Well, ya know, if they had some of the American idol finalists in the helicopters, maybe we’d remember better.

But the thought of Black helicopters reminded me of Gordon Duff and so I shot over to Veterans Today to see what he had to say about it, and oddly, this low hanging fruit for conspiracy theorists has escaped their attention. Probably because they’re so worried about the hoax at Sandy Hook;

Sandy Hook is the first terror attack meant to be unraveled, exposed and debunked, not once but week after week, month after month, one bizarre revelation after another.

Were Sandy Hook a television show, it would now be in its third season, another “psyop” to go along with “Homeland” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”

The murders were not about punishment and suffering, not in a primary sense. The sea of lies surrounding Sandy Hook is an outright assault on every institution, including, oddly enough, the press resources that had to have been readied and briefed, not just days but weeks in advance.

As many had postulated, Sandy Hook, the highly organized brutal murder of twenty small children by military trained special operations monsters is an act of pure political terror nearly identical to the “Breveik” slayings in Norway.

Ya know, because our special operations soldiers would just go ahead and follow orders to murder American children with no ethical queries whatsoever. Of course, we can’t expect the great and all-knowing Gordon Duff to think otherwise, given his extensive eighteen month military career 40 years ago. Of course, his big problem with the current government is that they’ve restricted access to his sponsors PressTV, the Iranian government’s mouthpiece.

In much of the West, Press TV has been shut down, censored, blocked or smeared and attacked. This was only a first step.

Yeah, gee, I wonder why. Couldn’t be because the poisonous anti-Semitic propaganda is out of step with the rest of civilization.

Andy Kravetz: Gordon Duff lost contact with reality years ago. “Full-blown batshit crazy” is probably putting it mildly concerning Duff. Enter his name in the search block at the top of the page here at TAH when you’ve got a few hours to spare and start reading.

Have a bottle of aspirin handy. Maybe a bottle of whiskey or tequila, too. After reading some of the stuff, you’ll definitely need the aspirin and might also need the liquor.

Oh, and Duff also appears to rather overstate his personal military service and experience, too:

You mean to tell me that Shirley Jackson Lee’s 18th Congressional district isn’t used to hearing gunfire and hearing helicopters? Sheeeeuuuut! I thought that part of Houston would be used to seeing helicopters and hearing gunfire. (Just sayin…)

Why is the Army practicing in real cities? It has MOUT sites on most training ranges. The legal and financial liabilities would easily destroy a brigade’s annual budget – I say that having been through a few MRA exercises in Germany and know how much that cost.

Add in flight hours, maintenance, and the rest of the logistics stew, and just one of these exercises matches a rotation to NTC.

So – who is authorizing this, accepting legal and monetary responsibility?

@16: Tier one units often train in cities because it’s a more realistic environment. Their budgets are huge. This is nothing new, BTW. I was living in Charlotte in 1996-97 and I recall this happening at least once there during that time frame. As far as any kind of “maneuver damage” I’ve never heard of any happening. For all the sturm and drang over this type of thing they usually go out of their way to make sure the actual force-on-force training is confined to a pretty small area.

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